Introduction
JudoShiai program is intended to help to organize a judo tournament. Together with a JudoTimer a minimum of only one official is required per competition area. JudoInfo program allows usage of one announcer and improves access to the information for the competitors and the public. JudoWeight and JudoJudogi let officials remotely control the database.
Main Characteristics
JudoShiai
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Tournament.
Competition has a name, place, date, start time and the number of mats.
Print results on paper or publish as web pages.
Print results in English, Finnish, Swedish, or Spanish.
Customize the web pages by editing style sheet file styles.css.
Web page auto-update implements real-time results service. Together with a web server (e.g. Abyss Web Server) competitors and the audience can follow the tournament in real time.
Print weight-in notes.
Warning if a competitor is participating to several categories and the matches are going to overlap.
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Competitors. Automatics helps in typing work.
The program concludes the correct category from the competitor's age and weight if not otherwise given.
Automatic club name completion.
Add all competitors from an old tournament database with or without weights.
Add competitors one by one.
Delete unweighted and undo deletion.
Delete empty categories.
Bar code search for competitors.
Incremental name search for competitors.
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Categories.
Add categories from another database.
Automated category creation.
For two players you can have one match or best of the three method.
Supported competition systems are pool, double pool, quad pool, and several variations of the double knockout. Supported are systems used in the following countries: international, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, and Spain.
Automated placement to the competition areas.
Categories are grouped. Matches from one group are finished first before starting the matches of the next group.
Manual and automatic drawing.
Drawing is compliant with the international rules (seeding, biased placement of competitors from the same country).
Drawing takes into the consideration competitor's club and country.
Category properties include name, shiai time, osaekomi times, rest time, age limit, and weight limits.
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Control of the JudoTimer. JudoShiai informs the JudoTimer program about the following competitors and receives the results automatically.
JudoTimer
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Control by mouse or keyboard.
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Shiai clock.
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Osaekomi clock.
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Sonomama/yoshi.
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Blue or red background.
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Shiai time setting manually or automatically from the JudoShiai program.
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Match times: 2 min with short pin times, 2 min, 3 min, 4 min, 5 min.
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Rest times and golden score times automatically from the JudoShiai program.
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Hantei.
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Several display layouts.
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Manual clocks correction.
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Osaekomi scores go to memory if the timekeeper is too busy with the consecutive osaekomis.
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Supported user interface languages are Finnish, Swedish, English, and Spanish.
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Competitor's names and category are visible on the display if JudoTimer is used together with the JudoShiai program.
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Another JudoTimer can act as a slave over the network connection.
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Year 2009 and 2010 rule updates are supported.
JudoInfo
Shows the next matches
First match in the category
Medal matches
JudoWeight
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Sets weights remotely
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Possibility to set control value (OK/not OK)
JudoJudogi
Judogi control program
Shows next three fights
Possibility to give pass/no pass for a competitor
The Program Usages
Program can be used in many ways. It is preferable that one JudoShiai program is used together with one JudoTimer program for each mat. In this case, JudoShiai program controls all the JudoTimers and the database is centralized.
Network connection between computers is not mandatory, but useful. An example configuration for two competition areas looks as follows:
Introduction to Tournament Protocol:
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Create the categories.
Type in the competitors to the JudoShiai program (or import from a text file or from an old tournament database).
Create the categories either manually or use the built in automation.
Place categories on tatamis.
Draw the categories.
Finally you will have a database that contains all the information.
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Site organization.
Connect the laptops to an Ethernet network. Use an ordinary switch that contains a DHCP server.
Connect the external displays to the laptops.
Connect the printer to the laptop where you run the JudoShiai program (or print over the network).
Run JudoTimer for each mat.
Run JudoShiai to control the tournament and JudoTimers.
Print the sheets for the competitors and audience.
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Competition.
Configure JudoTimers for each mat.
JudoShiai program sends information about the next matches to the JudoTimers.
Match information is visible in the JudoTimer displays. Also JudoInfos display the match order.
Score the players during the fights.
After the fight the JudoTimer sends the results to the JudoShiai (score, elapsed time, possible hantei result).
JudoShiai program updates the database and sends information about the next match to the scoreboard program and the JudoInfos.
This is repeated until all the fights are done.
Results
JudoShiai program can print the results to a printer, to a file in PDF format, or as a web page.